Go shopping and see what is available!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Fall is not too late to plant a rain garden
Visit your local nursery and find all the native plants you need to plant your autumn rain garden. The prices should be low and the selection should still be pretty good. The plants might be a bit spindly but they will be hearty if the nursery has taken good care of them.
Monday, March 1, 2010
These are the issues that make it hard to do right
In this article on MSNBC.com we find out that small businesses are pour chemicals into local waterways because ... it is "cheaper". Read on your
Here is a passage:
“We are, in essence, shutting down our Clean Water programs in some states,” said Douglas F. Mundrick, an E.P.A. lawyer in Atlanta. “This is a huge step backward. When companies figure out the cops can’t operate, they start remembering how much cheaper it is to just dump stuff in a nearby creek.”
Sunday, February 28, 2010
New Information Guides
Guide to Buying and Installing a Rain Barrel
Everything you need to know about buying and installing a rain barrel. This guide comes complete with a link to additional information that we could not fit on the guide.
Guide to Native Plant Maintenance
Simple to understand full-color, two sided, laminated guides that will give you season-to-season and year-to-year instruction to help you maintain your native plants.
Guide to "Greening Your Neighborhood"
How do you make your property as environmentally healthy as possible? Learn how to Green Your Neighborhood - One Yard at a Time with this easy to use check list!
Packets ($20.00) and individual guides ($7.00) available.
Quantity discounts for guides and packets are available.
New Clean Water and Sustainability Programs
Greening Your Neighborhood
Creating an eco-friendly yard can seem daunting but even if you live on a small lot that is exposed to sidewalks and street traffic you can use these techniques to "green" your landscape and your neighborhood. This program focuses on simple, sustainable practices and techniques in the areas of preserving and conserving water, reducing air, water and land pollution, creating habitat for birds, butterflies, bees and other beneficial insects and addressing some of the issues that will reduce an individual's contribution to climate change.
Gardens, Pavers, Barrels & Trees
If you build a garden, plant a tree or add a rain barrel under your downspout you will be helping to reduce stormwater runoff and might never even know it. Eliminating stormwater sounds like a boring and dirt subject but if you think about it in the form of Gardens, Pavers, Barrels and Trees it’s much more accessible and something that all homeowners should know.
As well as the very popular:
Rain gardens are the newest, yet oldest, thing anyone who is concerned about the environment can do to improve their community by protecting water quality, creating habitat for birds and butterflies and beautifying their neighborhood. Learn the basic steps to building and maintaining this simple, proven and inexpensive solution to the problem of urban stormwater pollution.
Where are the Rain Gardens?
We have had a good response to our request for local garden locations. Please continue to send information:
We are putting on a push in
Please send us what information you have about rain gardens you have installed, seen, designed, maintained, etc. We will be willing to share all information once we have organized it.
Please include as much information as possible. Name of garden, location (street address or 100 block), City, State, Install date, Installer, Sponsoring Org., whether it is a private or public garden (viewing a rain garden from the street without entering the property is important too) and any notes you might have. We will put all this information into a database and post it online. Photos are welcome but please, if possible, reduce them to 100K.
We hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. We also hope, as usually, that you are all raring and ready to start new gardens in your community. As an incentive the Rain Garden Network is rolling out a series of web pages, documents and interactive material to help you show off your new rain gardens and teach other how easy and important they are to install.
In response to the early feedback we received from the “Find A Garden” effort we will be posting the locations, photos and specifics of the gardens you sent us. Initially there will be just lists and links but as the program grows we hope to have a lot more!
If you or your community would like to add your installations to the list just read below for the specifics. We encourage individual homeowners to participate as well. We are looking for publicly viewable gardens primarily but any information about any rain garden is appreciated.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Water Issues We Are Facing But Not Facing Up To
New York Times series - http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters
Infrastructure and progress is part of the problem. More references to come.
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